Week 19

While working on presentation for the class, the team has actually met up with Eric, for solar panels and racking ideas to be implemented onto our full scaled design and blueprints. While most of his information was useful, we didn't really include much of it into our report because nothing is set in stone yet. After we presented we just continued to try and further compete our designs for the architects model and wait for our contact from South Africa to send blueprints of their full scaled stump.

Week #18

The team divided into different sections to complete the first presentation of the semester. Making everyone have a certain focus helps cover everything thag each section requires. I was given the section with a "zinger" - or something to hook the audience onto our presentation and understand what our team is trying to do as a whole. Since we were the former full scale track team, we decided to divide the project into two different sections - 1) A full scaled stump with a shorter height and 2) An architect's model to show the different features and facets that we are going to design for the actual full scale model. Each team member has researched different areas and has put everything together for this presentation.

Week #17

With the two new projects in our mind, the team decided to create our own asthetic designs for a potential client. A look to be streamlined instead of clunky. Most of us hand sketched these ideas and further uploaded them onto our team blog for substantial progress. Brainstorming and designing different ideas was a big focus for our team this week.

Week #16

This week the full scale team came to class earlier to meet up with our contact from South Africa who's working on a similar suspended transportation system, Andris. The meeting with Andris was very helpful into figuring out what our team needs to work on during the semester. We've planned to create two designs. One design is an arcitectural design of what the superway could potentially look like. While the other design would be a full-scaled stump of the column, ultimately showing the potential strength and shear volume of our design.

With these two projects in mind, the full scale team has changed our perception onto what our final product and goal is for the rest of the semester.